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Guide / Toolkit

Open Finance Self-Assessment Tool and Development Roadmap

This technical guide introduces the open finance self-assessment tool and development roadmap. It provides practical tools for policymakers to use to decide whether to implement an open finance regime to advance financial inclusion.

Case Study

First Microfinance Institution Syria: Building Resilience Through a Client-Centric Model

Case study in disaster risk reduction and crisis management during a civil war
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2010 Arab Microfinance Analysis & Benchmarking Report

Presenting the latest microfinance trends in the Arab world
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Financial Inclusion in the Middle East and North Africa: Analysis and Roadmap Recommendations

Improving financial access through microfinance
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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Syria

A scorecard to estimate poverty rates and track changes in them over time in Syria
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Microfinance as a Tool for Financing Medical Devices in Syria: An Assessment of Needs and a Call for Further Research

Using microfinance as a tool to support the disabled
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The Significant Demand for Microfinance in Syria

Providing financial services to low-income people
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The General Microfinance Decree: The Syrian Arab Republic

This law authorizes the establishment of "Social Financial Banking Institutions"
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Women and Men in Rural Finance in the Syrian Arab Republic: State-Owned Banking vs. Self-Manged Microfinance

Is there common ground between ailing development banks and new microfinance initiatives?
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UNDP Microfinance Assessment Report: Bahrain

What is the present and future of microfinance in Bahrain?